"North Tui Sports The Tui Sports was a New Zealand light aircraft of the 1930s. The Tui Sports was a small single seat aerobatic single bay biplane of fabric covered wooden construction with a highly streamlined circular section fuselage. It was powered by a Szekely 3 cylinder engine. The Tui Sports was built by Fred North at Dannevirke and first flown by Allan McGruer from a field near Whenuapai on 4 January 1934. It was named after the highly maneuverable Tui bird. The silver and gold Tui became very popular, being used for aero club flying and airline pilot training."
"""New Zealand Earth's Mythical Islands"". Kakapo The kakapo (Māori: kākāpō) or ""night parrot"", also called owl parrot (""Strigops habroptilus""), is a species of large, flightless, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot of the super-family Strigopoidea, endemic to New Zealand. It has finely blotched yellow-green plumage, a distinct facial disc, a large grey beak, short legs, large feet, and relatively short wings and tail. A combination of traits make it unique among its kind; it is the world's only flightless parrot, the heaviest parrot, nocturnal, herbivorous, visibly sexually dimorphic in body size, has a low basal metabolic rate and no male parental care, and"
"grasses and mosses. Nectar is the normal diet but fruit and insects are frequently eaten, and pollen and seeds more occasionally. Particularly popular is the New Zealand flax, whose nectar sometimes ferments, resulting in the tui flying in a fashion that suggests that they might be drunk. They are the main pollinators of flax, kowhai, kaka beak and some other plants. Note that the flowers of the three plants mentioned are similar in shape to the tui's beak—a vivid example of mutualistic coevolution. Tui have complex variety of songs and calls, much like parrots. They also resemble parrots in their"
"New Zealand parrot The New Zealand parrot superfamily, Strigopoidea, consists of three genera of parrots – ""Nestor"", ""Strigops"", and the fossil ""Nelepsittacus"". The genus ""Nestor"" consists of the kea, kaka, Norfolk Island kaka and Chatham Island kaka, while the genus ""Strigops"" contains the iconic ""kakapo"". All extant species are endemic to New Zealand. The species of the genus ""Nelepsittacus"" were endemics of the main islands, while the two extinct species of the genus ""Nestor"" were found at the nearby oceanic islands such as Chatham Island of New Zealand, and Norfolk Island and adjacent Phillip Island. The Norfolk kaka and the"
"New Zealand scaup The New Zealand scaup (""Aythya novaeseelandiae"") commonly known as a black teal, is a diving duck species of the genus ""Aythya"". It is endemic to New Zealand. In Māori commonly known as papango, also matapouri, titiporangi, raipo. Overall dark brown/black colors. The male has a striking yellow eye and a dark colored (greenish) head. The female is similar to the male, but without the yellow eye and has a white face patch during breeding season. A white wing bar can be seen in both sexes when in flight. The scaup is a diving duck which may submerge"
"Kakapo The kakapo (Māori: kākāpō) or ""night parrot"", also called owl parrot (""Strigops habroptilus""), is a species of large, flightless, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot of the super-family Strigopoidea, endemic to New Zealand. It has finely blotched yellow-green plumage, a distinct facial disc, a large grey beak, short legs, large feet, and relatively short wings and tail. A combination of traits make it unique among its kind; it is the world's only flightless parrot, the heaviest parrot, nocturnal, herbivorous, visibly sexually dimorphic in body size, has a low basal metabolic rate and no male parental care, and is the only parrot to"
"unusual biology such as the kakapo which is the world's only flightless, nocturnal, lek breeding parrot, but also many species that are similar to neighboring land areas. Some of the more well known and distinctive bird species in New Zealand are the kiwi, kea, takahe, kakapo, mohua, tui and the bellbird. The tuatara is a notable reptile endemic to New Zealand. The Pacific Islands are ruled by a tropical rainforest and tropical savanna climate. In the tropical and subtropical Pacific, the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) affects weather conditions. In the tropical western Pacific, the monsoon and the related wet"
"the kea is also closely monitored. The living kakapo are all in a breeding and conservation program. Each one has been individually named. New Zealand parrot The New Zealand parrot superfamily, Strigopoidea, consists of three genera of parrots – ""Nestor"", ""Strigops"", and the fossil ""Nelepsittacus"". The genus ""Nestor"" consists of the kea, kaka, Norfolk Island kaka and Chatham Island kaka, while the genus ""Strigops"" contains the iconic ""kakapo"". All extant species are endemic to New Zealand. The species of the genus ""Nelepsittacus"" were endemics of the main islands, while the two extinct species of the genus ""Nestor"" were found at"
"New Zealand glow worm (""Arachnocampa luminosa"") etc. Mount Tutu Eco-Sanctuary Mount Tutu Eco-Sanctuary in Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand, between Tauranga and Rotorua, is a Mainland Island Sanctuary, protected by the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust Act 1977 since 1993. The sanctuary exists to protect and educate on New Zealand's natural flora and fauna, with conservation programmes to mitigate the effects of introduced predators on New Zealand's native wildlife. The indigenous wildlife at the sanctuary include bellbird, tui, kereru (wood pigeon), piwakawaka (fantail), ruru (morepork, native owl), pukeko (swamp hen), shining cuckoo (migratory) etc. Lizards - skink and"
"in sheep stations when food was short to feed on the meat of butchered animals. Pipipi The pipipi (Maori: pīpipi; ""Mohoua novaeseelandiae""), also known as brown creeper, New Zealand creeper, or New Zealand titmouse, is a small passerine bird endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. They are specialist insectivores, gleaning insects from branches and leaves. They have strong legs and toes for hanging upside down while feeding. A warm mix of brown and chestnut on the upper part of the bird whilst the lower section is a noticeably paler brown (Refer to Figure 1). The head is a"
"Pipipi The pipipi (Maori: pīpipi; ""Mohoua novaeseelandiae""), also known as brown creeper, New Zealand creeper, or New Zealand titmouse, is a small passerine bird endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. They are specialist insectivores, gleaning insects from branches and leaves. They have strong legs and toes for hanging upside down while feeding. A warm mix of brown and chestnut on the upper part of the bird whilst the lower section is a noticeably paler brown (Refer to Figure 1). The head is a mix of patches of chestnut brown and dark brown with spots and streaks. The face"
"Mount Tutu Eco-Sanctuary Mount Tutu Eco-Sanctuary in Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand, between Tauranga and Rotorua, is a Mainland Island Sanctuary, protected by the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust Act 1977 since 1993. The sanctuary exists to protect and educate on New Zealand's natural flora and fauna, with conservation programmes to mitigate the effects of introduced predators on New Zealand's native wildlife. The indigenous wildlife at the sanctuary include bellbird, tui, kereru (wood pigeon), piwakawaka (fantail), ruru (morepork, native owl), pukeko (swamp hen), shining cuckoo (migratory) etc. Lizards - skink and gecko. Invertebrates - giant weta and the"
"of New Zealand, the first human is a woman created by Tāne, god of forests and of birds. Usually her name is Hine-ahu-one. In other legends, Tāne makes the first man Tiki, then makes a wife for him. In some West Coast versions, Tiki himself, as a son of Rangi and Papa, creates the first human by mixing his own blood with clay, and Tāne then makes the first woman. Sometimes Tūmatauenga, the war god, creates Tiki. In another story the first woman is Mārikoriko. Tiki marries her and their daughter is Hine-kau-ataata. In some traditions, Tiki is the penis"
"large number of flightless birds, including the kiwi, the weka, the moa (now extinct), and the kakapo. Because of the lack of predators even the bats spend most of their time on the ground. There are also about 60 species of lizard (30 each of gecko and skink), four species of frog (all rare and endangered) and the tuatara (reptiles resembling lizards but with a distinct lineage). Some butterflies of New Zealand are endemic, while many species have been introduced and some species of butterflies periodically migrate to New Zealand. The Australian painted lady has been known to migrate from"
"the national park. Many native birds can be found within the park, and Rakiura offers perhaps the best opportunity anywhere in New Zealand for viewing kiwi in the wild. This is in part due to the absence of stoats and ferrets. Certain coastal areas of this park are breeding areas for the endangered yellow-eyed penguin. Weka, a flightless and curious bird species, can only be found on offshore islands. In the 1970s, kakapo were found in the Tin Range at a time when it was thought that the species was nearly extinct. The kakapo have been transferred to nearby Codfish"
"Waka huia Waka huia and Papa hou are treasure containers made by Māori - the indigenous people of New Zealand. These treasure containers stored a person's most prized personal possessions, such as hei-tiki (pendants), feathers for decorating and dressing the hair such as the tail feathers of the huia (Heteralocha acutirostris), heru (hair comb) and other items of personal adornment. Waka huia and papa hou were imbued with the tapu (taboo) of their owners because the boxes contained personal items that regularly came into contact with the body, particularly the head (the most tapu part of the body). Waka huia"
"Muaūpoko Muaūpoko is a Māori iwi on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand. Muaūpoko are descended from the ancestor Tara, whose name has been given to many New Zealand landmarks, most notably Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington). His people were known as Ngāi Tara, although more recently they took the name Muaūpoko, meaning the people living at the head (""ūpoko"") of the fish of Māui (that is, the southernmost end of the North Island.) Muaūpoko’s traditional area is in the Horowhenua/Kapiti Coast/Wellington region. In the early nineteenth century Ngāi Tara were a large iwi occupying the area between the Tararua Ranges in"
"beeches, from the genus ""Nothofagus"", comprise a less diverse habitat, with the beeches of four species dominating the canopy and allowing a single understory. In the north of New Zealand the podocarp forests were dominated by the ancient giant kauri. These trees are amongst the largest in the world, holding the record for the greatest timber volume of any tree. The value of this was not lost on early European settlers, and most of these trees were felled. The remaining vegetation types in New Zealand are grassland of grass and tussock, usually associated with the subalpine areas, and the low"
"is listed as endangered, and the kea is listed as vulnerable. The fauna of New Zealand evolved for a long time in the absence of humans and other mammals. Only a few bat species and sea mammals were present prior to colonisation by humans, and the only predators were birds of prey that hunt by sight. These circumstances influenced the evolution of New Zealand's parrots, for example, the adaptations to flightlessness of the kakapo and the ground breeding of the kea. Polynesians arrived at Aotearoa between 800 and 1300 CE, and introduced the ""kurī"" (dog) to the islands. This was"
"They nest from October to March. They lay five to eight cream/white eggs in a nest close to water, often under banks or thick cover. The nest is usually lined with grass and down. The eggs are incubated for four weeks by the female. The newly hatched ducklings begin diving for food on their first outing. New Zealand scaup The New Zealand scaup (""Aythya novaeseelandiae"") commonly known as a black teal, is a diving duck species of the genus ""Aythya"". It is endemic to New Zealand. In Māori commonly known as papango, also matapouri, titiporangi, raipo. Overall dark brown/black colors."
"food of the ""kererū"" (New Zealand pigeon). Taraire is a very distinct species of tropical appearance whose broad, dark-green leaves with their distinctive depressed veins, and large, erect plum-like dark purple fruits distinguish it from all other indigenous trees and shrubs of New Zealand. Taraire is one of three endemic ""Beilschmiedia"" species in New Zealand. The others are the common canopy tree ""tawa"", (""B. tawa""), which has thin willow-like leaves, and the ""tawaroa"" (""B. tawaroa""), which is similar to ""tawa"", but has broader leaves. Propagation is easy from fresh seed, and better germination results if the flesh surrounding the seed"
"was excited by an eel. Her excitement passed to Tiki and the first reproductive act resulted (Reed 1963:52). John White names several Tiki or perhaps manifestations of Tiki in Māori tradition: The word appears as ""tiki"" in New Zealand Māori, Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, and Marquesan; as ""tii"" in Tahitian, and as ""kii"" in Hawaiian. The word has not been recorded from the languages of Western Polynesia or in the Rapa Nui language. Tiki <nowiki></nowiki> In Māori mythology, Tiki is the first man created by either Tūmatauenga or Tāne. He found the first woman, Marikoriko, in a pond; she seduced"
"Cape relates to the Takitimu canoe, which was followed by a flock of kaka parrots as it left Hawaiki. They gorged on tawapou berries to sustain them on the long flight. When they reached East Cape they disgorged the seeds, which grew, and eventually the tawapou trees spread along the coast. Pouteria costata Pouteria costata is a small coastal tree native to the northern North Island (New Zealand) and to Norfolk Island (Australia). In New Zealand, its common name is tawapou (Māori: ""tawāpou""); on Norfolk Island it is called bastard ironwood. The name ""costata"" is from the Latin ""costatus"" (ribbed),"
"known habitat of a small sub-alpine shrub, the Hikurangi tutu (""Coriaria pottsiana""), found on the grassy scree slope behind the Mount Hikurangi Tramping Hut at . Mount Hikurangi was the location of the last known mainland sighting of the North Island saddleback in 1910, before its reintroduction to the North Island on the 16th of June 2002 at Zealandia in Wellington. In Māori times, kaka would fatten themselves on the berries of the tawari trees growing on the mountain. In the 1960s, members of the Gisborne Tramping Club heard what they thought may have been the call of a kakapo"
"Te Waka a Māui Te Waka a Māui (the canoe or vessel of Māui) is a Māori name for Te Waipounamu, the South Island of New Zealand. Some Māori mythology says that it was the vessel which Māui (a demi-god hero, who possessed magic powers) stood on as he hauled up Te Ika-a-Māui (the fish of Māui - North Island). There are also stories about other people, Kupe and Toi, who discovered Aotearoa (New Zealand). Maui lived in the Māori ancestral homeland of Hawaiki. One day he hid in the bottom of his brothers' boat as they went on a"
"also inhabited forests dominated by podocarps (rimu, matai, kahikatea, totara), beeches, tawa, and rata. In Fiordland, areas of avalanche and slip debris with regenerating and heavily fruiting vegetation – such as five finger, wineberry, bush lawyer, tutu, hebes, and coprosmas – became known as ""kakapo gardens"". The kakapo is considered to be a ""habitat generalist"". Though they are now confined to islands free of predation, they were once able to live in nearly any climate present on the islands of New Zealand. They survived dry, hot summers on the North Island as well as cold winter temperatures in the sub-alpine"
"name is derived from the demarcated brown plumage on its back which resembles a saddle. The Maori name of ""tieke"" is from the particular sound of one of this species' common calls: ""ti-e-ke-ke-ke-ke"". There are two species: The saddlebacks appear to be a remnant of an early expansion of passerines in New Zealand and are two of five New Zealand wattlebirds of the family Callaeidae, the others being the extinct huia, the endangered North Island kōkako, and the probably extinct South Island kōkako. New Zealand wattlebirds have no close relatives apart from the stitchbird, and their taxonomic relationships to other"
"Birds of New Zealand The birds of New Zealand evolved into an avifauna that included a large number of endemic species (that is, species found in no other country). As an island archipelago New Zealand accumulated bird diversity and when Captain James Cook arrived in the 1770s he noted that the bird song was deafening. The mix includes species with unusual biology such as the kakapo which is the world's only flightless, nocturnal, lek (competitive display) breeding parrot, but also many species that are similar to neighboring land areas. A process of colonization, speciation and extinction has been at play"
"New Zealand and was in fact the lost ""kawekaweau"", a giant and mysterious forest lizard of Maori oral tradition. This animal's specific epithet, ""delcourti"", is taken from the surname of French museum worker Alain Delcourt, who discovered the forgotten specimen in the basement of the Natural History Museum of Marseille. Hoplodactylus delcourti Hoplodactylus delcourti, also commonly known as kawekaweau, Delcourt's sticky-toed gecko or Delcourt's giant gecko, is an extinct species of lizard, the largest known of all geckos with a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of and an overall length (including tail) of at least . It was perhaps endemic to New"
"significantly. In the past this bird was called the New Zealand crow: it is not a crow at all, but it looks like one from a distance. The spelling ""kokako"" (without a macron) is common in New Zealand English. The kōkako appears to be a remnant of an early expansion of passerines in New Zealand and is one of five species of New Zealand wattlebirds of the family Callaeidae, the others being 2 species of endangered tieke, or saddleback, and the extinct huia. New Zealand wattlebirds have no close relatives apart from the stitchbird, and their taxonomic relationships to other"
"Ngāi Tahu Ngāi Tahu, or Kāi Tahu, is the principal Māori iwi (tribe) of the southern region of New Zealand. Its ""takiwā"" (tribal area) is the largest in New Zealand, and extends from Blenheim, Mount Mahanga and Kahurangi Point in the north to Stewart Island in the south. The ""takiwā"" comprises 18 rūnanga (governance areas) corresponding to traditional settlements. The five primary hapū (sub-tribes) of the three tribes are Kāti Kurī, Ngāti Irakehu, Kāti Huirapa, Ngāi Tūāhuriri and Ngāi Te Ruakihikihi. Some definitions of Ngāi Tahu include the Waitaha and Kāti Māmoe tribes who lived in the South Island prior"
"(typically mice). New Zealand has extensive natural tussock grasslands in locations where elevation and climate has limited forest growth. This includes the Central Plateau in the North Island and extensive areas of the South Island between the tree line and the alpine environment. There are also smaller areas of tussock grassland on flood plains due to the constantly shifting substrate and greater likelihood of frost. New Zealand’s grassland ecosystems evolved in the absence of grazing mammals. Birds (Moa) and invertebrates were the main browsers until the introduction of sheep, goats and deer in the 1800s. Multiple species of tussock are"
"New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The first specimen of ""M. kahutarae"" collected was found in March 1970 in a colony of Hutton's shearwaters on Mt Tarahaka in the Seaward Kaikoura Range. It was immediately recognised as an undescribed species, but repeated searches from 1970 to 1981 in the Seaward Kaikouras failed to find any further individuals, until in 1983 four were collected in the Kahutara Saddle area, away from where it was first found. The specific epithet, ""kahutarae,"" is taken from the place where the type specimen was found. The black-eyed gecko has since been found in the mountains of"